Critical Review: Canadian Senate Reform Issues

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What I have provided you with is a referenced discussion of the triple-E Senate reform proposal. You will notice that aside from discussing what it is, what it means to critics and pundits I also traced a little of its history. I decided to present a comprehensive solution for you providing details of Manning's views so that you will have a solid basis from which to build your own final paper. While i could have made it shorter, I believe that not including whole portions of Manning's opinion, a key player in the triple-E debate, will not help you in getting to the essence of the senate proposal. It is easy enough to distill this solution the 3-page 900 word final result you want. that is because the resources I used to create this harvard-style essay for you can be found in the references section. Both web & print resources are easy to access for you using the net and your library.
Attached is the word version.

The Triple-E Senate Reform Proposal

At its core, the triple E Senate reform is all about instituting elected Senators into the Senate rather than being appointed by selection by the Prime Minister. Another main concern of the reform proposal is equal representation of all provinces in the Senate independent of populace and the empowerment of the Senate House to Counter the House of Commons. The 3 Es in the term stands for Equal, Elected & Effective that proponents & supporters see as lacking in the Senate to truly be said to be representative of the people and empowered democratically. The triple-E reform proposal is an important constitutional debate in Canada because supporters see it as a plan that would empower the majority instead of only the minority who have access to politicking and power thereby ensuring that power is not distributed equally across Canada and that many are marginalized while only the will of the minority permeate in the halls of power. One of the main reasons why an elected Senate is gaining popular support is that many believe that elected Senators are going to be more supportive of the needs of their constituents over toeing the party line. As it stands, towing the party line ensures many politicians of influence and importance to their parties, guaranteeing appointments to post.Banting, Simeon & Hoeberg proposes that in Canadian Politics, "Party discipline ensures that the rational behaviour for individual MPs is to toe the Party line; there is less opportunity for them to espouse publicly either constituency or interest group views," (1997:167). If the Senate goes through this reform ...